The Future Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GHIJKFELMNOP QFCRSTUV WCXYZRA2 B2C2D2E2RF2G2 H2FI2C2J2K2L2XM2 CMWN2FO2P2N KCQ2R2OFS2KRET2 U2V2 CW2X2FY2WZ2 A3B3C3D3RM2XE3FNA wanderer is man from his birth | A |
He was born in a ship | B |
On the breast of the river of Time | C |
Brimming with wonder and joy | D |
He spreads out his arms to the light | E |
Rivets his gaze on the banks of the stream | F |
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As what he sees is so have his thoughts been | G |
Whether he wakes | H |
Where the snowy mountainous pass | I |
Echoing the screams of the eagles | J |
Hems in its gorges the bed | K |
Of the new born clear flowing stream | F |
Whether he first sees light | E |
Where the river in gleaming rings | L |
Sluggishly winds through the plain | M |
Whether in sound of the swallowing sea | N |
As is the world on the banks | O |
So is the mind of the man | P |
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Vainly does each as he glides | Q |
Fable and dream | F |
Of the lands which the river of Time | C |
Had left ere he woke on its breast | R |
Or shall reach when his eyes have been closed | S |
Only the tract where he sails | T |
He wots of only the thoughts | U |
Raised by the objects he passes are his | V |
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Who can see the green earth any more | W |
As she was by the sources of Time | C |
Who imagines her fields as they lay | X |
In the sunshine unworn by the plough | Y |
Who thinks as they thought | Z |
The tribes who then roamed on her breast | R |
Her vigorous primitive sons | A2 |
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What girl | B2 |
Now reads in her bosom as clear | C2 |
As Rebekah read when she sate | D2 |
At eve by the palm shaded well | E2 |
Who guards in her breast | R |
As deep as pellucid a spring | F2 |
Of feeling as tranquil as sure | G2 |
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What bard | H2 |
At the height of his vision can deem | F |
Of God of the world of the soul | I2 |
With a plainness as near | C2 |
As flashing as Moses felt | J2 |
When he lay in the night by his flock | K2 |
On the starlit Arabian waste | L2 |
Can rise and obey | X |
The beck of the Spirit like him | M2 |
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This tract which the river of Time | C |
Now flows through with us is the plain | M |
Gone is the calm of its earlier shore | W |
Bordered by cities and hoarse | N2 |
With a thousand cries is its stream | F |
And we on its breast our minds | O2 |
Are confused as the cries which we hear | P2 |
Changing and shot as the sights which we see | N |
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And we say that repose has fled | K |
For ever the course of the river of Time | C |
That cities will crowd to its edge | Q2 |
In a blacker incessanter line | R2 |
That the din will be more on its banks | O |
Denser the trade on its stream | F |
Flatter the plain where it flows | S2 |
Fiercer the sun overhead | K |
That never will those on its breast | R |
See an ennobling sight | E |
Drink of the feeling of quiet again | T2 |
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But what was before us we know not | U2 |
And we know not what shall succeed | V2 |
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Haply the river of Time | C |
As it grows as the towns on its marge | W2 |
Fling their wavering lights | X2 |
On a wider statlier stream | F |
May acquire if not the calm | Y2 |
Of its early mountainous shore | W |
Yet a solemn peace of its own | Z2 |
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And the width of the waters the hush | A3 |
Of the grey expanse where he floats | B3 |
Freshening its current and spotted with foam | C3 |
As it draws to the Ocean amy strike | D3 |
Peace to the soul of the man on its breast | R |
As the pale waste widens around him | M2 |
As the banks fade dimmer away | X |
As the stars come out and the night wind | E3 |
Brings up the stream | F |
Murmurs and scents of the infinite sea | N |
Matthew Arnold
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